Paper-fastener.



No. 837,363. PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906. G. L. WHEELOGK. PAPER FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.27,1905.

GEORGE L. WHEELOCK, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

PAPER-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906.

Application filed December 27, 1905. Serial No. 293,479.

To all 1072,0712, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. WHEnLooK, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the borough of Manhattan and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in thatclass of paperfasteners which are applied to the corners of papers withthe object of avoiding the puncturing and perforating of the paper, sothat the fastener may be conveniently applied and the papers securelyfastened, the sheets readily separated and reassembled and the fastenerreapplied, and the papers easily and conveniently examined. Such cornerfasteners when composed of sheet metal, although the invention is notrestricted to sheet metal, involve considerable waste of material, inconsequence of which the cost of production of the same is increasedbeyond what it might be.

According to my invention all waste of sheet metal may be absolutelyavoided by reason of the fact that the part which is removed from withinone fastener forms a part of another fastener.

A striking characteristic of this invention is the fact that eachfastener is in appearance like that of one of the elements or componentsof a Greek fret or border.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a strip ofmetal, showing by dotted lines how a number of fasteners in accordancewith my invention may be cut therefrom without loss of material. Fig. 2is a plan view of a fastener constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 3 is a view of the same fastener, the arms of which arebent up so that the same form a means to receive and adjust the cornersof the papers to be fastened. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of theimproved fastener applied to papers, and Fig. 5 is a rear elevation ofthe same.

Referring to the drawings, ct represents a suitable sheet metal strip orblank from which my improved fasteners may be cut by means of suitablecutting and stamping machinery. The strip is fed longitudinally tosuitable machinery and the fasteners successively cut therefrom andformed with bending lines or bends when desired.

Referring to Fig. 2, each fastener consists of a bar I), having at eachend substantially parallel side arms 0 d, which extend in the samegeneral direction at substantially right angles to the bar. The arm 0 islonger than the arm (1, and the latter arm has protruding therefrom apaper-folding tongue e, which extends, preferably, at right angles fromthe arm (1 inwardly. The extending of the tongue e from the arm (1obviously avoids loss of metal in the manufacture of a number offasteners. The parts of the fastener are continuations of each other.The described fastener will be seen to have but two terminals and theconventional form of one of the elements of a Greek fret or border. Aswill be apparent from Fig. 1, the part removed from within one fastenerforms a part of another fastener. Along the dotted linesf Q1respectively, creases may be presse or stamped into each fastener tofurnish. bending-lines to facilitate application to the corners ofpapers to be connected.

The fasteners are preferably applied as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, where itwill be seen that the bar I) is placed against the front of the sheetsso as to extend from edge to edge of the corners of the sheets, whilethe arms 0 d are bent rearwardly and inwardly over and upon the back ofthe sheets, and the tongue 6 is bent forwardly and inwardly down andupon the corners of the sheets of paper protruding beyond the bar I). Inthis manner the sheets of paper are securely and conveniently connected.In Fig. 8 the arms 0 cl are shown as bent during process of manufactureout of the plane of the bar I), so that the fastener forms a means toreceive the corners of the papers to be connected.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A paper-fastener, comprising a bar to extend across the corners ofthe sheets to be fastened, side arms, one at each end of said bar andadapted to be bent and folded over toward and directly opposite to saidbar, and a paper-folding tongue extending from the end of one arm.

2. A paper fastener, side arms, one of the same being shorter than theother side arm, and a folding-tongue extending at right angles from theend of the shorter arm toward the other arm.

3. A sheet-metal paper-fastener, comprising a bar, arms exten ing insame direction at right angles from the bar, one arm being substantiallyas much shorterthan the other comprising a bar,

as the Width of said bar, and a folding-tongue I one at each end ofsame, and a paper-folding extending at right angles from said shorterarm toward the longer arm, said tongue being spaced from the longer armand the bar, a distance substantially the Width of the tially thepurpose set forth.

4. A paper-fastener, composed of continuous folding and clenching parts,With but two o terminals, and comprising a bar, side arms,

tongue, the combined parts of the fastener having the approximate formof one of the elements of a Greek fret or border, substantially as andfor the purposes set forth. tongue and the shorter arm, for substan-GEO. L. WHEELOCK.

Witnesses:

OLIN A. FOSTER, Jos. BUMP.

